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Just wondering (Data compressors back in the 80s)While utilizing some sort of data compression is admittedly the norm for Speccy productions nowadays, it doesn't seem to have been the case back in t…
... of data transfer (hence the turbo loaders and whatnot). I'm ... inclined to think it's not that the ... since early days in the Speccy history. The obvious question thus ... any compressors available for the Speccy back then?", and the next one is ... -
Issue 6a black and white problemGot a 6a board, no colour, black and white striped border (when it should be blue or red), and the display visibly judders left and right slightly ev…
... blue or red), and the display visibly judders left and right slightly every ... -
Heads up on the Global Game JamIt's an international event where teams try to complete a game in 48hrs. There are no limits on platform, so spectrum games are allowed if your tea…
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One of the achievements (or diversifiers as they ... of four shades of the same color, and the game must be ... disk (incl. executable, all assets and external libraries, unzipped)
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How the spectrum generates the video from ramHi everyon, I know that most people here allready know this but i think i found out how the spectrum acctually dispalys stuff and why the LD x, (HL)…
... a PIC, the z80 sends the data onto IO and the PIC reads this ... , stores this and displays in the ... of ram to video memory and the rest to program data, ... 1K of video memory and the second chip stores the program/data. Thing ... -
The best ANIMATION?Hi pplz) I like so-called 'Spanish' graphics style and when my nephew and I made a couple of screenshots to see how animation phases were done he sa…
... 'Spanish' graphics style and when my nephew and I made a couple ... TRANTOR[/B] - one of the biggest and the smoothest animation IMO)
2 ... br /> 5. [B]Heavy on the Magick[/B] - though pixelated, ... br /> Followed by REX, SATAN and other fancy series.
PS3 now fully cracked and open?About a month back, a hacking group claimed that they'd discovered the PS3's 'key' algorithms, meaning that they can 'sign' any code. What this means…
... the file, and if the two values (the checksum and the stored value, the latter known as the ... 'sign') are the ...fish and fish tanksI'm looking at buying one and well notice they have heaters.. the current one doesn't and the 2 fish in it sit in the corner sometimes huddled toge…
... one and well notice they have heaters..
the ... current one doesn't and the 2 fish in ... it sit in the corner ... anything to do with the heat ? and should I use a ... expect to see em in the saucer thread :lol:
+3 disks and IPF formatIn order to avoid derailing the Spectaculator 7.5 release thread, I've created this thread for further discussion of the IPF format for +3 disks that…
... only for places where Samdisk and the IPF libraries exist, i.e ... up and inaccessible in many years, just look at how the BBC ... engineering the format so that it can be opened up and included ... a small part of the picture and that the library works very differently ...the white lettering on the rubber key speccyhello folks bit of an odd question this one. so just underneath the black 'sinclair' on the top left of the rubber keys speccy is "ZX Spectrum" I'…
... underneath the black 'sinclair' on the top left of the rubber ... 2 nice boxed versions and on one the "ZX Spectrum" ... it as a kid) and the other its just black.
and it being like this, ... does it just mean the white has rubbed off?!< ...Championship manager 2010 is that the good one.As above. I think im right in saying champ Manager has received some stick in recent years and the programers of the original champ manager games hav…
As above. I think im right in saying champ Manager has received some stick in recent years and the programers of the original champ manager games have another football managment game now. But is champ manager 2010 anygood.What first person shooter games (PC or console) have both a map maker and bots?I was just wondering if there are any other games that have a map maker (or level editor, whatever you want to call it), and also have bots that can …
... makers are very powerful indeed, and the bots play very well. You ... />
The map makers for the three Timesplitters games, and for the original Unreal ... Tournament are the only ...Working with DOS and Plus D disks on a +2A/+3Don't know if this will be of interest to anyone, but once in a while someone asks how to do it. Dominic Morris has given permission for WOS to distr…
... source code discs back in the 90s and the source for discconv wasn ... 't one of the ones that I ... be easy to disassemble and add in the necessary extra poke (detailed ... had a lack of discs and also the dependency on ROM calls ...Which actor/s have appeared in the most films.?I watched Inception on dvd last night and it was just as good as when i saw it at the flicks as well as Leonardo DiCaprio there were a few other acto…
... Inception on dvd last night and it was just as ... i saw it at the flicks as well as ... actors such as Michael Caine and the late Pete Postlethwaite who ... of him recently and i asked myself the question `i wonder ... which actor has appeared in the most [i]movies[/i] ...Did anyone forsee the internet?I was just wondering, given how much the internet has changed everyday life, did anyone actually forsee any of it in the pre-internet days? I mean, …
... as the old TV program 'Tomorrow's World" and essays and articles written ... true at all.
And the 'net itself, as a giant ... of nowhere (to the layman, I mean), and has changed so much ... by other people, and often a search of the 'net will yield ...Speedlock and Games questionI have found that games such as [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004564]Slap Fight[/url] and the others, e.g. [url=http://www.w…
... ?id=0004564]Slap Fight[/url] and the others, e.g. [url=http ... different coloured loading stripes but the routine in general, watch Slap ... Fight as an example and compare it to Catch 23 ...BusySoft Demos, Melody Music and Music Player TZX/TAPsHi! Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but let's try anyway: [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz/taps/misc/busysoft-tzx.zip"]Here[/URL] are …
... be definitely preserved in the archive.
And [URL="http://zxds ... for the credits, from the top of my head the 1-4 and 6 ... done by Unisoft - Petr Voneš and the other guy, 5 was done ... one day it finally appeared), and the Music Players were done by ...The N64 megathread[Skip this if you want, the short version is "The N64 was deeply flawed, but still has some of the best games ever", so now you can claim you've read…
... the Playstation 1 and the Sega Saturn both being CD based of course, and the ... wonder Sony and Sega went with the disc format.
And the decision ... they go and by a real N64 and the games, and think that their ...Stupid Things You've Overheard at the Game ShopsI was talking to a friend the other day and the subject turned to stupid things we had overheard in game shops (not just the company GAME but all sho…
... to a friend the other day and the subject turned to ... game shops (not just the company GAME but all ... sell games) both from customers and staff.
... over which was better The Getaway or GTA San ... Sk8ter Boi saying that the Tony Hawk games get twice ...One Missing from the Archive?Today I brought a ZX Spectrum and it came with the usual Make a Chip, Scrabble, Chess, .... plus a few common budget titles. However, I have one I h…
... a ZX Spectrum and it came with the usual Make a ... never seen before and cannot find in the archive in either ... and transparent plastic folder, with a thin A4 book about ballooning and the ... program on the tape , a polystyrene ...Games that are both rubbish and addictive.This has probably been done before but I've rediscovered this gash gem. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009301[/url] Advance…
... Simulator. It has awful graphics and the worst pinball physics ever. It ...Some more 419 fun fresh from the spam folderErm from Eva Desmond apparently? [quote]Hello My name is Eve Desmond, I saw your profile today through the help of chamber of commerce in ouagadoug…
... 31st July with his wife and the whole crew on board. ... out of the bank and out of the country too. The total initial ... APPLY FOR THE
CLAIM AND TRANSFER OF THE FUND SMOOTHLY ... RESPECTABLE ORGANISATIONS SUCH AS CHARITY AND THE
DESTITUDES HOMES ARROUND ...The display of the ZX SpectrumI'm trying my hand at putting a simple emulator together, but I don't quite remember exactly how the screen works... I have a (void) function that ta…
... quite remember exactly how the screen works...
the screen memory without the attributes) and the byte at ... the coordinates of the 8 pixels from the address in the screen RAM. IIRC the ... screen is divided into 3, and ...RIP Our Henry and Whispering TedTwo legends have passed away today. The boxing great Henry Cooper who was the first man to put my hero Muhammad Ali on his backside. [url]http://ne…
... legends have passed away today. The boxing great Henry Cooper who ... was the first man to put my ... /13256045.stm[/url]
And the voice of snooker Ted Lowe ... /> Both of them true gentlemen and legends in their respective fields ...Hutch the RabbitI'm currently working on the graphics for a game that will hopefully be available for the iPhone/iPad or something. Still in it's very early stages, …
... stages, here is the main character, Hutch the Rabbit, and a test animation ... colour palette.....but I created the character and animated him in SevenUp ... 'tools' available in it and the easy way you can flick ...The attribute challenge final (part three)Last one :) , I was going to hold off but the pics are ready and the last one was solved in 20 minutes so... I've rotated (some but not all) of thes…
... to hold off but the pics are ready and the last one was ...Was the Sinclair 128k the same as the 128k +2?I only ever played on a 48k Speccy a few times and I owned a +2 and that's it. Was the Sinclair 128 the same as the 128+2? I mean you could play a 1…
... and that's it.
Was the Sinclair 128 the same as the ... Apart from the obvious tape deck attached and the design was the Sinclair 128 ... then same as the +2 ... games with AY music and all the tricks on a ...Upgrading the Humble Spectrum 128 +2 (Grey)Hello there my fellow WoS'ers I am at a subtle in-pass in my wants for one of my +2 motherboards. I received this mobo, DOA in a job lot from fleab…
... and a fellow WoS'er I believe achieved adapting the 128K to the ... ROM, but what about the original +2 (and 128k arguably), these only ... a MAX232 IC and convert TTL to MIDI. The quandary I have ... have read up on the "Not the D+" and the "D+" are there any ...Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions ... ].
Starting sources were the WoS forum and Velesoft's "fixed" games ... - Upon loading, emits a beep and then the system resets.
[*]Fairlight ...The HobbitIMHO game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006440"]The Hobbit[/URL] should have a "known errors" note as described [URL="http:…
... go east from the town in the middle of the Long Lake. This ... ask Elrond to read the map for you, and the route he tells ... . The way to spot the difference between the versions is that the names of the ...Speccy's and Opus etcAre you sitting comfortably? I will do my very best to identify all this stuff. I have had some help but please ask if you need more information abo…
... time it was on the DC plug and the wire got hot. There ... up using the mains lead and the 'Video' output from the Opus and these screen ... should point out that the Opus, the Monitor and the Speccy that was attached ...
